Jacquilynne
@jacquilynne.bsky.social
Mostly trivia. As it turns out, also mostly PWHL.
#Trivia QOTD: The New Year's Six are college football bowl games traditionally played around New Year's Day. The Rose Bowl is the most famous of them, but name one of the others.
December 31, 2025 at 2:20 PM
#Trivia QOTD: The New Year's Six are college football bowl games traditionally played around New Year's Day. The Rose Bowl is the most famous of them, but name one of the others.
Well, that was exciting. @pwhlcharge.bsky.social #pwhl
December 27, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Well, that was exciting. @pwhlcharge.bsky.social #pwhl
#Trivia QOTD: Sarah McLachlan founded Lilith Fair, the all women music tour, which was named for Lilith, the disobedient first wife of whom?
December 23, 2025 at 2:13 PM
#Trivia QOTD: Sarah McLachlan founded Lilith Fair, the all women music tour, which was named for Lilith, the disobedient first wife of whom?
#Trivia QOTD: The Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado was the inspiration for what fictional hotel? The Timberline Lodge in Oregon stood in for the real thing in the film adaptation, but the Stanley was used in a later TV miniseries.
December 22, 2025 at 2:18 PM
#Trivia QOTD: The Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado was the inspiration for what fictional hotel? The Timberline Lodge in Oregon stood in for the real thing in the film adaptation, but the Stanley was used in a later TV miniseries.
#Trivia QOTD: What former Deadspin columnist turned Defector worker-owner and podcaster and columnist and memoirist just dropped his annual Haters' Guide to the William-Sonoma catalogue?
December 19, 2025 at 3:43 PM
#Trivia QOTD: What former Deadspin columnist turned Defector worker-owner and podcaster and columnist and memoirist just dropped his annual Haters' Guide to the William-Sonoma catalogue?
#Trivia QOTD: The Winter Olympics used to be held in the same year as the Summer Olympics, but then the IOC decided to have them alternate every two years. The first Winter Olympics on the new schedule was 1994 in what host city?
December 16, 2025 at 2:15 PM
#Trivia QOTD: The Winter Olympics used to be held in the same year as the Summer Olympics, but then the IOC decided to have them alternate every two years. The first Winter Olympics on the new schedule was 1994 in what host city?
#Trivia QOTD: Although it was then known as the 'Don't Make a Wave Committee', what activist group first took to the seas in 1971, sailing from Vancouver aboard an eponymous ship to protest nuclear testing in Alaska?
December 15, 2025 at 2:18 PM
#Trivia QOTD: Although it was then known as the 'Don't Make a Wave Committee', what activist group first took to the seas in 1971, sailing from Vancouver aboard an eponymous ship to protest nuclear testing in Alaska?
#Trivia QOTD: The Corinth Canal technically kinda sort of turns what alliterative Greek peninsula into an island by separating it from the mainland with a very narrow channel?
December 11, 2025 at 2:20 PM
#Trivia QOTD: The Corinth Canal technically kinda sort of turns what alliterative Greek peninsula into an island by separating it from the mainland with a very narrow channel?
#Trivia QOTD: If James Lipton is asking you questions like 'What is your favourite word?', 'What turns you on?' and 'What profession other than your own would you like to attempt?' you are metaphorically inside what titular space?
December 10, 2025 at 2:33 PM
#Trivia QOTD: If James Lipton is asking you questions like 'What is your favourite word?', 'What turns you on?' and 'What profession other than your own would you like to attempt?' you are metaphorically inside what titular space?
#Trivia QOTD: de la vergüenza, das Anstandsstück, schaambrokje, and trivselbit are all specialized terms used to refer to what practice that is commonly found in dining etiquette?
December 9, 2025 at 2:35 PM
#Trivia QOTD: de la vergüenza, das Anstandsstück, schaambrokje, and trivselbit are all specialized terms used to refer to what practice that is commonly found in dining etiquette?
#Trivia QOTD: What celebrity was sued (unsuccessfully) for saying that the threat of mad-cow disease 'just stopped me cold from eating another burger!'?
December 5, 2025 at 2:36 PM
#Trivia QOTD: What celebrity was sued (unsuccessfully) for saying that the threat of mad-cow disease 'just stopped me cold from eating another burger!'?
#Trivia QOTD: Although the exact reason for the name is disputed, the Sandia Mountains in New Mexico are pretty certainly named for what fruit?
December 4, 2025 at 3:10 PM
#Trivia QOTD: Although the exact reason for the name is disputed, the Sandia Mountains in New Mexico are pretty certainly named for what fruit?
#Trivia QOTD: The throwback golfing shorts known as plus-fours are so named because they are 4 inches longer than what other knee-length, baggy cuffed breeches that were used as sporting attire back in the day?
December 3, 2025 at 2:28 PM
#Trivia QOTD: The throwback golfing shorts known as plus-fours are so named because they are 4 inches longer than what other knee-length, baggy cuffed breeches that were used as sporting attire back in the day?
#Trivia QOTD: For 80s famine relief in Ethiopia, Band Aid did 'Do They Know It's Christmas?' in the UK, USA for Africa did 'We Are The World' and in Canada, anglophone and francophone super groups both did fundraising songs. Name either Canadian song.
December 2, 2025 at 5:54 PM
#Trivia QOTD: For 80s famine relief in Ethiopia, Band Aid did 'Do They Know It's Christmas?' in the UK, USA for Africa did 'We Are The World' and in Canada, anglophone and francophone super groups both did fundraising songs. Name either Canadian song.
#Trivia QOTD: Yale University was the home to an experiment in which volunteers were induced to give what they thought were increasingly strong electric shocks to what they thought were other volunteers. The experiment is named for its principal researcher -- who?
December 1, 2025 at 2:20 PM
#Trivia QOTD: Yale University was the home to an experiment in which volunteers were induced to give what they thought were increasingly strong electric shocks to what they thought were other volunteers. The experiment is named for its principal researcher -- who?
I was just in Staples and they had a TV set up demoing Bell TV and it was showing TSN and beside the chyron was a little ad saying "PWHL lives here". It didn't make me want to get cable but it did make me smile. It is nice that they are cross-promoting it.
November 30, 2025 at 10:03 PM
I was just in Staples and they had a TV set up demoing Bell TV and it was showing TSN and beside the chyron was a little ad saying "PWHL lives here". It didn't make me want to get cable but it did make me smile. It is nice that they are cross-promoting it.
#Trivia QOTD: It's the first Saturday in May, you're wearing an impossibly large hat and drinking hard liquor out of a silver cup. What event are you at? (Or at least pretending you're at.)
November 28, 2025 at 2:26 PM
#Trivia QOTD: It's the first Saturday in May, you're wearing an impossibly large hat and drinking hard liquor out of a silver cup. What event are you at? (Or at least pretending you're at.)